# GB athletes urge good causes to take up free experience days offer to raise funds

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2023/08/02/gb-athletes-urge-good-causes-to-take-up-free-experience-days-offer-to-raise-funds/
- Published: 2023-08-02T10:40:15+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**To mark one year to the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, free places on GB Athlete 
Experience Days are being given away as part of a project to raise £1mn for good
causes by the time of the opening ceremony.**

Through the [Legacy 300](https://www.legacy300.com/) athlete purpose project, cyclists,
rowers, hockey players and more have donated £569k for good causes and taken part
in head-to-head challenges with GB Gold Medallists since 2012.

The Beat the Medallist challenge series centres around VIP hosted challenges in 
a number of sports which allow people to measure up against a GB Gold Medallist 
whilst also enabling individuals or team entries to generate funds for their chosen
good causes.

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Good causes are given places, which they can then auction off to raise funds for
themselves.

People are also encouraged to [donate via Crowdfunder](https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/gbcharitydays)
to help the athletes reach the £1mn total.

Recently fundraisers at Property Race Day, Polo for Heroes, Securities Finance Ball,
Building for Heroes; Kids Out, Paul’s Place and Action for A-T turn donated entry
fees worth £1,554 into £3,445 at auction. So far however take up by good causes 
has been low, and the athletes are hoping that this [offer of free places](https://www.legacy300.com/goodcauses)
will encourage more people to support local good causes as they take on GB Gold 
Medallists.

> "We recently used some of these free places in our silent auction in June, & all
> of them sold above the reserve price! It worked super well, & I passed their details
> onto David who has taken it from there. I believe they were happy with their purchase,"
> Alex Batchelor Kids Out [pic.twitter.com/nDSY1Bukmt](https://t.co/nDSY1Bukmt)
> — Legacy 300: One Sporting World (@BritishAthletes) [July 14, 2023](https://twitter.com/BritishAthletes/status/1679844049950310401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

GB Rowing Gold Medallist Matt Langridge posted a video message on his twitter feed
saying:

_“As Olympians we would love to see the next £500K we raise in donations to come
in the year up to Paris 2024.”_

 * **[The mysteries of the young](https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/06/15/mysteries-young/)**(
   15 June 2007)
 * **[Legacy Trust UK gives £1 million to seven organisations](https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/05/22/legacy-trust-uk-gives-1m-seven-organisations/)**(
   22 May 2012)
 * **[Return £425 million of Olympics underspend to good causes, urges DSC](https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/06/13/return-425m-olympics-underspend-good-causes-urges-dsc/)**(
   13 June 2012)

## Comments

### By: Mags R

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2023/08/02/gb-athletes-urge-good-causes-to-take-up-free-experience-days-offer-to-raise-funds/#comment-4526
- Published: 2023-08-14T13:02:26+01:00

How do we nominate our charity to be a potential beneficiary?

### By: HowardLake

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2023/08/02/gb-athletes-urge-good-causes-to-take-up-free-experience-days-offer-to-raise-funds/#comment-4527
- Published: 2023-08-14T13:36:18+01:00

I don’t know. You’d have to ask Legacy300.

The contact details on their website are [DAVID@LEGACY300.COM](https://fundraising.co.uk/2023/08/02/gb-athletes-urge-good-causes-to-take-up-free-experience-days-offer-to-raise-funds/DAVID@LEGACY300.COM#comment-4527)
07866 316 228\.